Coaching and mentoring
Coaching
Coaching is one of the key approaches through which leadership in organisations can be developed.
It’s a method of deploying techniques embedded in artful questioning and appreciative inquiry to help leaders unlock their full potential to achieve personal and professional success.
Whether as a one-to-one focused and bespoke relationship or within a group context, coaching is often perceived as the single most effective development intervention our staff can access.
The South East Coaching and Mentoring Register is an easy-to-use platform to find a coach or a mentor at any point in your professional career if you are looking for a longer term coaching relationship.
Mentoring
Mentoring is very different to coaching. Support and guidance of a mentee is often led by a more experienced, skilled and knowledgeable professional mentor.
The emphasis is on developing the leadership expertise of the mentee in a work context, with the process of mentoring encouraging independence, autonomy and self-development.
Through embedding reflective practice, shared learning and improved ownership for solution-focused thinking, mentoring can deliver improvements in an individual’s performance that lead to enhanced leadership maturity.
Coaching and Mentoring resources
Coaching and mentoring resources for individuals
- FREE Coaching Tools - My Self-Help Habit (myselfhelphabit.co.uk) — How to use coaching skills to support your own development and growth (self-coaching tools).
- Living With the Inner Critic: 8 Helpful Worksheets (positivepsychology.com) — Free online assessments to help you explore your critical inner voices (self-sabotage).
- How 14 Coaches Help Their Clients Overcome Procrastination (forbes.com) — A model to help you manage procrastination tendencies.
- Co-Active Coaching Toolkit (coactive.com) — Job Performance Wheel exercise to enable you to measure your satisfaction across a range of performance related areas.
- Personality Test, Personality Assessment: VIA Survey | VIA Institute (viacharacter.org) — The VIA Character Strengths Survey enables you to identify your character strengths with a free to download profile.
- iResilience: Free Personal Resilience Report (robertsoncooper.com) — The iResilience report provides a comprehensive understanding of personal resilience (strengths and areas of risk).
- Self-Compassion Test (self-compassion.org) — Test how self-compassionate you are and some self-compassion activities and exercises.
- Career framework | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk) — A self-assessment tool to help nurses review progress, build confidence and further career options.
- Circle of Influence. Why you have more power than you think (thensomehow.com) — A tool to enable you to gain insights about your sphere of influence and level of control.
- Learning Library (North West Leadership Academy) — A questionnaire designed to help you pinpoint your learning style/preferences so that you are in a better position to select learning experiences that suit your style (downloadable word document).
- Values and Beliefs Tools | Crowe Associates (crowe-associates.co.uk) — A range of tools to help you identify, explore, and prioritise your values.
- 17 Emotional Intelligence Tests and Assessments (positivepsychology.com) — A range of articles and quizzes to help enhance your ability to understand and manage your emotions.
- The Wheel of Life® - Finding Balance in Your Life (mindtools.com) — The wheel of life helps you consider each area of your life and assess what is off balance.
Coaching and mentoring resources for coaches and mentors
- How Coaching Works (YouTube) — Short four-minute film on how coaching works.
- The GROW model in action (YouTube) — Seven-minute video demonstrating the GROW model in action.
- Corridor Coaching Example (YouTube) — Four-minute video demonstrating a ‘corridor coaching’ approach.
- An Example of Good Coaching Questions (YouTube) — This video shows the importance of using open questions when coaching a colleague.
- Coaching in the Workplace (YouTube) — Short clip explaining what coaching conversations in the workplace entails.
- What is the difference between coaching and mentoring? (YouTube) — Four-minute clip from NHS Elect explaining the difference between coaching and mentoring.
- What coaching is (YouTube) — Confused what coaching is? Watch this short, animated video to learn more.
- To coach, to mentor, or both? (YouTube) — A short animation exploring the differences between coaching and mentoring and their relevant applications.
- Building Coaching and Mentoring Capacity highlights (YouTube) — Building Coaching and Mentoring Capacity in the NHS.
- What is mentoring (YouTube) — Five-minute video on what is mentoring from both a mentor and mentee perspective.
- How to Be a Mentor (YouTube) — Five-minute video on how to be a mentor.
- Mentoring Skills: The art of questions (YouTube) — Nine-minute training session on the art of questioning in mentoring.
- Co-Active Coaching Toolkit (coactive.com) — The Co-Active Coaching Toolkit is a free database of resources available for you for download and use with your coaching clients.
- Coaching Conversations for Leadership Development (hee.nhs.uk) — Coaching Conversations and Resources.
- Professional mentoring resources (mentorloop.com) — Everything you need to build your best mentoring program yet.
- Coaching and Mentoring factsheets (cipd.org) — CIPD factsheets to identify ways to apply coaching and mentoring principles as part of an overall learning and development strategy.
- Coaching and Mentoring Toolkit (westlondoncollege.ac.uk) — Coaching and Mentoring Health and Wellbeing Toolkit.
- Mentoring worksheets (princes-trust.org.uk) — Worksheets designed to support mentoring young people, but useful for all ages.
- Tips and tools for successful mentoring (warp-it.co.uk) — Some great tips and tools so you can begin the exciting journey to do all that’s necessary to attract, and offer, awesome, high-level help.